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...Auto repair is only one of more than 70 municipal operations Indianapolis' Republican Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, the nation's leading exponent of "competing out," has spun off in five years in office. The city's wastewater-treatment plants are being run by a private company, at a projected savings of $65 million over five years. Indianapolis International Airport is now run by the British Airport Authority, which promises it will save $32 million over 10 years. Goldsmith even managed to privatize Indianapolis' 2,200-job Naval Air Warfare Center, which had landed on the Pentagon's base-closing list. With...
...civil war all but destroyed Cambodia's frail, poorly funded cultural infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around...
...more violence, Administration officials began to think something bolder was required. The President postponed for only a week a planned mission by Middle East mediator Dennis Ross--his first since last April--to regenerate confidence, and huddled with his security advisers to consider what else Washington could do to repair the diplomatic damage. "It's pretty clear," said a U.S. official, "that it will be hard to get this on track unless there is a high degree of security cooperation...
...exterior of the houses, building services will work to stop water penetration, which can damage slate roofs, chimneys, gutters and copper joints. Much of the stonework on House facades is being remortered and sanded, and workers will repair the wrought iron gates and fences along the river...
...DAGMAR SIMOVA, the woman who told the world that Albright's family had Jewish origins. Feelings between the two sides of the family are--well, somewhat strained. At the American embassy in Prague, word was that a visit was tentative. In the end, Albright decided it was best to repair the breach. The two women had a private breakfast in Albright's hotel the morning after she arrived, and later, when Czech President VACLAV HAVEL presented Albright with the country's highest honor at Hradcany Castle, Simova was seated front and center, wiping tears from her eyes. But Albright...